An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach was explored for supporting construction bid decisions, since such decisions are heavily dependent on practitioner expertise, which in turn is generally encapsulated in case ...

production and manufacturing industries employ obsolete methodologies. However with the advent of personal computers in the early 1980's the user community enlarged very rapidly. The telecommunication infrastructure has ...

This Paper demonstrates that the aesthetic concepts of engineering design do not just arise; but that they are derived from various models of aesthetics. It also presents various Proportioning Systems and their application ...

A viscous solution of gum resin with about 50% water has to be concentrated without changing the quality of the solved material and by reaching a reasonable bulk density. On a double drum drier, 120 mm diameter and 150 ...

Since cement manufacturing causes 7- 8% of total global CO2 emissions, attempts have been made to minimize cement consumption. One method is to introduce pozzolans, commonly fly ash (FA), as supplementary materials to ...

A blast event lies within the social system and involves people. Hence vulnerability to blast loading can be considered a socio-technical or "soft" system, where our ability to model and hence predict bounds on behaviour ...

A surfactant plays an important role in a colloidal system such as natural(NR) latex. It decreases the surface free energy at the interface between the rubber particle and aqueous phase, thereby enhancing the stability ...

Steel reinforcement corrosion is the most frequent threat to concrete durability. Carbonation is considered to be one of the prominent precursors to steel corrosion in concrete. The introduction of fly ash concrete increases ...

Spalling of concrete is a common phenomenon in reinforced concrete structures subjected to fire. As there are both macroscopic and microscopic factors involved, studying the behaviour of concrete spalling in fire is ...

By surveying some of the research that has been carried out, a need for a systematic approach to the problem formulation and solution development in designing custom-made integrated production planning systems has been ...